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Hitman Pro KickStart Removes FBI Ransomware

There’s a lot of fake FBI Ransomware out there, so much so in fact, that SurfRight (the makers of Hitman Pro) have developed a solution called KickStart that targets Ransomware. Kickstart creates a bootable USB stick that prevents the ransomware from loading and then subsequently removes it for you. It’s simple and effective.

Open the Hitman Pro download. You’ll notice at the bottom of Hitman Pro that there is a new button (little figure doing a karate kick). Click that button.

There will be a simple interface that goes into more details on how Kickstart works.

Plug-in an empty USB stick into a free USB port on your PC.

Click Install Kickstart. Hitman Pro Kickstart will erase the USB stick and then put all the necessary software on that stick for booting your PC into Windows without the Ransomware loading. After Windows loads Hitman Pro will remove the ransomware automatically.

I have removed that ransomware as easily as running MBAM on the infected system. I like to try different methods if I have a little time with a machine and I read somewhere (may have been Bleeping Computer) that it could be removed by doing a system restore and so I tried that on the last one I had with that infection and sure enough, it wiped it out. If I get another one with that problem I will try out KickStart for sure. Sounds like a quick way to handle it.

Hi all i got hit by his just in a web browser i hit CTRL ALT DEL and ended the browser i have rebooted several times,and all the time i have not seen the window with the fbi thing return, so dose that mean i did not get this virus, i have win a scan with superantispywware,malwarbytes ,and DRWEBCURIT and all come up negative. should i d-load and run hit man if i have no signs of this virus at all?. I’m on windows 8 64 bit.

Matt
In your review, Remove Malware Free 2013 Edition, you have said you hoped that Malwarebytes Antimalware have force breach mode?
Malwarebytes have already got something similar, it is called Malwarebytes Chameleon.
Malwarebytes Chameleon will allow Malwarebytes Antimalware to run on the computer when the computer is infected with Rogue Security Software.
See herehttp://www.malwarebytes.org/products/chameleon/
You might want to do a review on Malwarebytes Chameleon

I will clarify further about Malwarebytes Chameleon
As soon as Malwarebytes Chameleon is running, you press any key to continue.
Malwarebytes Chameleon will do one of the following things:
If Malwarebytes Antimalware is already installed, Malwarebytes Chameleon will update Malwarebytes Antimalware.
If Malwarebytes Antimalware is not installed, but the Malwarebytes Antimalware installer is on the computer, it will install Malwarebytes Antimalware using that installer on the computer before it updates Malwarebytes Antimalware.
If Malwarebytes Antimalware is not installed, and Malwarebytes Antimalware installer is not anywhere on the computer, it will download Malwarebytes Antimalware installer and install Malwraebytes Antimalware before it updates Malwarebytes Antimalware.
After all known malicious process is terminated by Malwarebytes Chameleon, Malwarebytes Antimalware will be launched, and it will perform a quick scan.
All you need to do from that point onwards is to wait for the scan to finish, and remove everything detected.
Malwarebytes Chameleon may fail to run as malware may attempt to block access to it, in this case, close the window that blocks Malwarebytes Chameleon from running, and run it again.
If it fails to run again, try to run a renamed version of it, there are also .com and .scr versions of it, try these ones if you have to.
You may even want to run Malwarebytes Chameleon in Safe Mode With Networking, in this case it will be more likely for Malwarebytes Chameleon to run successfully.

Also note:
If you have already got Malwarebytes Antimalware installed, Malwarebytes Chameleon is included, you can find it in C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes Antimalware\Chameleon.
If you are going to run Malwarebytes Chameleon from C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes Antimalware\Chameleon folder, don’t run mbam-killer.exe since mbam-killer.exe is used by Malwarebytes Chameleon to terminate known malicious processes.

So far – anything that hits me on my honeypot limited account, I just run CCleaner and reboot. I’d like a crack at this new one! Of course, my clients get pwned anyway, so this is golden information. As always – thanks Matt!!

Also, if you are going to do this review to use Malwarebytes Chameleon when the installer of Malwarebytes Antimalware is on the computer, you need to move Malwarebytes Chameleon into a folder in the drive where your operating system is installed, otherwise it may not work, e.g. If your operating system drive is C:, you must move Malwarebytes Chameleon folder into C: drive (make sure you include mbam-setup.exe in that folder as well, other file name for the installer may not work) in order to make Malwarebytes Chameleon install Malwarebytes Antimalware successfully, although you can try it in D drive (New Volume), if you have one.